Hyderabad, India: Australia have won the thrilling warm up match against Pakistan by just 14 runs sparing 14 balls in Rajiv Ghandi cricket international stadium Uppal here on Tuesday.
Muhammad Nawaz half century made the match exciting and full of thrill as Pakistan have lost six crucial wickets even Baber Azam retired hurt after splendid 90-run inning.
An entertaining innings from @mnawaz94 ✨
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) October 3, 2023
He departs after a well-made 50 off 42 balls 🏏#PAKvAUS | #CWC23 | #WeHaveWeWill pic.twitter.com/x5oqxpixrT
Australia elected to bat first and gave Pakistan handsome target of 352 runs by losing seven wickets.
A solid partnership of first wicket between David Warner and Mitchell Marsh provided thumping start to Kangaroos. While David Warner lost his wicket on 48 run which included three sixes and four fours.
All the opening players of Kangaroos performed well as Mitchell Marsh Steven Smith Marnus Labuschagne went to pavilion scoring 31, 27 and 40 respectively.
Besides middle order batters were remained ahead of opening batters as Glenn Maxwell 77 and Cameron Green 50 made splendid half centuries while Josh Inglis hit hard 48 valuable runs for his team.
From Pakistani side Usama Mir took two wickets while Harris Rauf, Muhammad Waseem, Shadab Khan, Muhammad Nawaz have taken one wicket each.
Shaheen Shah Afridi could not take one single wicket in his 6 overs.
Pakistani opening batters failed again as all three Fakhar Zaman 22, Imam Ul Haque 16 and Abdullah Shafique 12 could not show impressive performance yet again.
Skipper Baber Azam and Iftakhar Ahmed played a brilliant partnership of 144 runs while the skipper retired hurt on 90 run and Iftakhar Ahmed made fantastic 83 runs.
Striking with ease 👏@babarazam258 brings up a 36-ball half-century!#PAKvAUS | #CWC23 | #WeHaveWeWill pic.twitter.com/1k1MtdeVAI
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) October 3, 2023
Marnus Labuschagne showed all-round performance as he took three wickets and scored 40 runs while Pat Cummins, Mitchell Marsh took two wickets each.
Moreover Glenn Maxwell and Sean Abbott took one wicket each.
